Health Care and the Constitution

In his recent Christian Science Monitor editorial, Anthony Gregory asks the essential question – the one that politicians in D.C. almost never bring up – Is it Constitutional for Obama force you to buy health insurance?

Anthony’s short answer is spot on – “Nothing in the Constitution allows the individual mandate he proposes.” Here’s a little more:

The Constitution created a federal government limited to its enumerated powers. Everything Congress is allowed to do is spelled out in Article I. The 10th Amendment makes it explicit: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

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The center leaves out the most obvious misrepresentation – that Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce is not the same as Congress’ running and owning any aspect of interstate commerce. There is a vast difference between regulating healthcare insurance and providing healthcare insurance.